Yarn guide



l June 29, 1943. T. E. CARLSON 2,322,825

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I 4 IHHHI' nl I/@ o @Mmm im l V l X" 8 AVv v A INVENTQR Theodore EinarCarlson .iPatented June '29, 1943 vAaNcUmE Theodore E. Carlson, Cumberland, Md., assigner to Celanesc Corporation of America, a corporation of Delaware Application December 10, 1941, erial No. 422,373

A8 Claims. (01.-242-157) This invention relates to yarn guides, and relates more particularly to improvements in holders for yarn guides for use in textile operations employing one or more ends of yarn.

Anobject of this invention is to provide a novel method of mounting guide eyesl in a holder whereby the life of the guide eyes is enhanced.'

A further object of this invention is the provision of an improved construction'for a yarn guide p holder for use on a creel or wherever one or more guide eyes are employed. l

Other objects of this invention, together with of parts, will appear from the following detailed description.'

In the drawing:

certain details of construction and combinations l Figure 1 is a front view ofa bank of yarn guides for use in connection with a creel,

Figure 2 is a cross-sectional view, taken on line 2-2, of Figure 1,

Figures 3 and iv are detail views of holder plates, the plate shown in Figure 4 having been given a vquarter turn, i. e. rotated through an angle of 90, and

Figures 5, 6, 7 and 8 are detail views of a guide eye during different periods of its use and showing grooves worn therein by the passage of the yarn therethrough.

Like reference numerals indicate like parts n throughout the several views of the drawing.

Referring now to the drawing, wherein a preferred embodiment of my invention is shown, the reference numeral I indicates a supporting frame of a warp knitting creel on which a plate holder 2, hereinafter described more fully, is mounted. In such a warp knitting creel approximately 400 yarn ends are wound .upon a spool and several of these spools may be employedto make up a single warp for a warp knitting machine which may handle upto 20,000 or more ends, depending upon the type and width of fabric to be produced. It is to be understood, however, that the holder arrangement shown in the drawing is given by way of example only and that the invention is not only applicable to the spooling of yarns for warpknitting machines but may also be` employed in a creel for beaming warps for weaving machines, on the -looms themselves in slashing operations and, invgfact, wherever one or These channel members are adapted to receive u eyes inserted therein.

plates 6, which may be made of metal, wood, ceramic or other suitable material, to form a bank. The ends of the channel members 3 and l may be bent as shown at 1 to retain the plates 6 in position in said plate holder. Mounted in each plate 6 may beone or a plurality of guide eyes 8 which guide eyes could be made of any suitable material but are preferably made 'of porcelain. Y

' In the preferred embodiment of my invention, guide eyes 8 are shown mounted in the plate 6` which is square and adapted to slide easily into plate holder 2. In use the yarn indicated by reference character A passes through the guide eye as shown in Figure 5, for example, in contact with the inner edge thereof. When the guide eyes have become cut as indicated at 9, the plates are removed, given a one-quarter or degree turn, and then puil back in the plate holder so `that the yarn A' will cross the guide eye in a dif- 'ferent position as shown in Figure 6. The plates can ybe turned twice more as shown in Figures 7 and 8 to provide new surfaces on the guide eye for yarn contact before returning to their original position. After. the plates'have been rotated` to their original or starting position they may be removed from the holder 2 and have new guide In place of the square plates 6 shown in the drawing, plates of other geometric shapes may be employed, such as hexagonal, octagonal, or other polygonal plates, provided, however, that the guides are so spaced that after each turn they remain equidistant from each other throughout all of the plates of the bank. As shown in the drawing, the square plates- 6 each have eight guide eyes so arranged that upon rotation of the plates in unison the guide eyes remain equidistant. If desired, square plates having l, 2, 4, 5, 9 or more guides may be employed in place of the one shown.

It is to be understood that the foregoing detailed description is merely given by way of illustration and that many variations may be made therein without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having described my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent is: Y

1. Method Aof extending the nre of guide eyes 2. Method of extending the life of guide eyesemployed ina-bank of the same to space and lchange the rdirection of travelling yarns, which comprises mounting a set of guide eyes in a support in iixed relation to each other, aligning a plurality of said sets to form a bank so that all of the guide eyes in said bank are equidistant from each other and turning each set of the bank thesame predetermined distance so as to cause each guidev eye in said bank to present a diierent portion thereof for contact with said yarn while maintaining their original relationship as to dis tance therebetween.

3. In a device of the character described, a guide eye, a polygonal holder for said guide eye and a support for said holder, said support having channel members for supporting between the channels thereof said polygonal holder in a plurality of positions.

4. A yarn spacing and direction changing device for use in textile operations for'dlrecting at least one travelling yarncomprising a polygonal holder havingl at least one guide eye set therein and a support for said holder, said support having channel members for vsupporting between the channels thereof said polygonal holder in a plurality of positions.

5. A yarn spacing and directionrchanging device suitable for directing a plurality of travelling yarns, comprising a plate holder, a plurality of plates mounted in said holder and adapted to be rotated relatively thereto, and a plurality of guide eyes mounted in each plate, said guide eyes being so spaced in each plate so as to equidistant from .each other throughout all of the plates carried by said plate holder.

6. A yarn spacing and direction changing device suitable for directing a plurality of travelling yarns, comprising a plate holder, a plurality of plates mounted in said holder and adapted to be rotated relatively thereto, and a plurality of` guide eyes mounted in each plate, said guide eyes being so spaced in each plate so as to be equi distant from each other throughout all of the plates carried by said plate holder and means for holding said plates in' position on said plate holder.

7. A yarn spacing and direction changing device suitable for directing a plurality of travelling yarns, comprising a plate holder, a plurality of plates mounted in said holder and adapted to be rotated relatively thereto, and a plurality of rows of guide eyes mounted in each plate, said guide eyes being so spaced in each plate so as to be equidistant from each other throughout all of the platescarried by said plate holder.

8. A yarn spacing and direction changing device suitable for directing a plurality of travelling yarns, comprising a plate holder, a plurality of plates mounted in said holde'r and adapted to be rotated relatively thereto, and a plurality of rows of guide eyes mounted in each plate, said guide eyes being so spaced in each plate so as to be equidistant from each other throughout all of the 

